Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running: Foundations of Mac, iPhone, and iPad Programming

by Scott Stevenson

Build solid applications for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch, regardless of whether you have basic programming skills or years of programming experience. With this book, you'll learn how to use Apple's Cocoa framework and the Objective-C language through step-by-step tutorials, hands-on exercises, clear examples, and sound advice from a Cocoa expert. Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running offers just enough theory to ground you, then shows you how to use Apple's rapid development tools -- Xcode and Interface Builder -- to develop Cocoa applications, manage user interaction, create great UIs, and more. You'll quickly gain the experience you need to develop sophisticated Apple software, whether you're somewhat new to programming or just new to this platform.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Reference, Computers, Nonfiction

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, this was too much of a beginner's book for me to get much out of it. The parts I cared about it glossed over and the parts I didn't need, the author spent lots of time on. Too much "here's what to do" and too little, "here's why to do it."